온라인디지털콘텐츠 이용과 소비자보호

A Study on Protecting Consumer Right for the Use of Online Digital Contents

In december 2005, the Online Digital Contents Industry Promotion Act was amended to protect the users in online contents transactions. The original purpose of the act was aimed at promotion of the online digital contents industry by protecting online digital contents producers from competitors' unauthorized reproducing or transmitting the online digital contents. This amendment may maximize the business profits of online digital contents producers by facilitating the lawful use of online digital contents. And the users can also use online digital contents in the stable environment with concrete standard like damages compensation in real transactions. Notwithstanding all those merits, the act are focusing on governments' supporting the promotion of online digital contents industry. And it had no concerning about how to regulate online digital contents transactions. Online contents transactions need to be regulated differently from general transactions because they are fulfilled without facing each other. The Online Digital Contents Industry Promotion Act also needs to have a concrete scheme to protect consumers' right because it has a purpose for the promotion of the industry concerned. Therefore, this paper investigate the protecting system of the digital contents use for the order establishment of digital contents transactions and for protecting users, and then try to suggest the modifying scheme for the Online Digital Contents Industry Promotion Act.